[PDF file]: […] through which future funding could be channelled and deniability ensured. A specific step in enabling this course of action to be adopted came in 1949 with National Security Council Directive 10/2. This empowered the CIA to spend money on whatever or whomever it felt would be beneficial to US interests without having to explain […]
[…] of a close working relationship with Bill Harvey. Well I found it on page 513, on a letterhead which says Bishop Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working […]
[PDF file]: […] that bedevil the US Deep State. The FBI realised it had simply blundered across an officially-sanctioned disinformation project and that it was in the interests of national security to keep it under wraps. The long and the short of which is that the ‘burned memo’ cites documents that have been comprehensively debunked by everyone […]
[PDF file]: […] the massacres in Derry (January 1972; popularly known as ‘Bloody Sunday’) and Ballymurphy (August 1971). Carroll discusses the legal cases that followed, as the UK police and security services attempted to catch the perpetrators of various bombings – eventually sending the wrong people to prison (the Guildford Four, Birmingham Six and Maguire Seven). Also […]
[PDF file]: […] timetable for 2002-3 was dictated almost solely by the exigencies of Rumsfeld/Cheney war planning (and the congressional mid-term elections), rather than imminent Iraqi threat. Many seasoned national security heavyweights from previous US administrations – Brent Scocroft, James Baker, Lawrence Eagleburger – had dismissed administration claims of a dramatic rise in threat level,4 hence the […]
[…] of a close working relationship with Bill Harvey. Well I found it on page 513, on a letterhead which says Bishop Service. In an unrelated Office of Security file on Robert Maheu there is a clipping which features Bill Harvey and Hal Swenson (both CIA retirees and former FBI agents)…..they are described as working […]
[PDF file]: […] of what was said behind closed doors. MPs and pressure groups have condemned secret trials but prosecutors claimed the secrecy was justified in the interests of national security, and described it as “an exceptional case”.’ Beckett, Hencke and Kochan have done us a service in trying to pierce the barriers Blair has erected around […]
[PDF file]: […] most noted by his absence. When he eventually surfaced, and was asked for an explanation he apologised and stated that he had been working undercover, for the security services, in the BNP. Nobody believed him. Well we wouldn’t, would we? And perhaps that’s the problem with too many people in UK politics today – […]
[…] cares); he’s interested in the ‘true Seventies fashion’. Once again we get the Private Eye-cynical hack view of Harold Wilson’s attempts to get an investigation of the security Page 143 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 services going: Wilson was paranoid and (using Bernard Donoughue’s diaries as evidence), Marcia Williams was dreadful. ‘The daily drama in […]
[PDF file]: […] for all European countries to adopt laws that criminalise Holocaust denial, to create clearer definitions of constitutes racism and antisemitisim, and to oblige governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools. Writing in The Times today, Mr Blair and Moshe Kantor, a Russian-born Jewish philanthropist and businessman, say that Europe is at […]
